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So Much For America's Mayor

Actually, none of these guys know each other. File photo from House impeachment hearings

Poor flunkee Rudy Colludy, who's gone from America's Mayor - long a questionable moniker - to Trump's lapdog, errand boy and cyber genius to, per GOP lawyers' latest "defense" of Mr. Impeachment, an about-to-land-under-a-bus "minor player" and "shiny object designed to distract you” who was "spot on" about Russia even though he really didn't have anything to do with Ukraine or....anything. Later, because the moral arc of the universe occasionally turns out to be quite short, Rudy had the misfortune to be caught on video walking down the street as his fearless former denizens zealously jeered and cursed him - just desserts if ever a complicit goon deserved them, and one more reason to love rude, scrappy, tell-it-like-it-is New Yorkers.

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Prepping for Saturday's protests in D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser went for the grand gesture - and a symbolic middle finger to the racist cowering in the White House - and had "Black Lives Matter" painted in yuge yellow letters on the city's main drag. Bowser's action, aimed at recognizing the thousands in the streets "craving to be heard and to be seen," was criticized by some activists as "performative distraction," but many celebrated it as a vital tribute: "We are saying it loud. We are here."

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